Background Double-checking of medication administration is a safety practice used in hospitals around the world. Independence is recommended as the key to effectiveness. Independent double-checking ...
The ISMP guidelines are not designed to be adopted unchanged by hospitals to represent the hospital's medication administration policies. Instead, the ISMP believes that each hospital (through an ...
Purpose: The impact of an interactive CD-ROM program on the rate of medication administration errors made by nurses was studied. Methods: This randomized, controlled, nonblinded study was conducted at ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medication administration errors led to negative feelings of guilt, fear and self-blame, according to a study ...
Despite evidence showing that the causes of medication errors can be traced back to multiple factors in the healthcare setting, healthcare professionals still often feel the blame on them. In a new ...
OneDose’s new eMACC app digitizes medication cross-checks for EMS, aiming to reduce errors and streamline protocol updates ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The error rate among children aged older than 12 years was 20.9 per 100 orders ...
Despite evidence showing that the causes of medication errors can be traced back to multiple factors in the healthcare setting, healthcare professionals still often feel the blame on them. In a new ...
A DNA test could help match patients with psychiatric medications, potentially reducing the long and frustrating ...